FILE: Under an amendment offered by Sen. Ron Alting, R-Lafayette (right), physicians would be allowed to test the woman's pregnancy by whatever means is medically appropriate.

Written by

Mary Beth Schneider
IndyStar.com

The Indiana Senate today changed a key provision of an abortion bill, eliminating the requirement that a woman who received an abortion through a drug undergo an ultrasound afterward.

It still requires an ultrasound before the drug is administered.

Physicians have said that given the small size of the uterus when the drug RU486 is given in the early weeks of pregnancy, the ultrasound would have to be done by vaginal probe. That, they said, is both invasive and unnecessary. ...